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10.4: Set Command-F to search by 'Name Contains'
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Jan 25, '07 05:01:53PM
While a good start, the text entry box still defaults to the Spotlight one in the toolbar (and if you remove it from the toolbar, it adds a search field to Find... that can not be removed, grrr). And you can't use the tab key to keyboard your way to the Name Contains text box.
Actually, removing the Spotlight search field from the Toolbar in Find windows (actually removes them from all Finder windows) by selecting View: Customize Toolbar, and dragging it out of the Find window, is a nifty approach--it does add a new, separate "Search for" field to Find windows, but it meets all of our basic criteria here: it sits at the top of the list of find criteria; it finds by Name Contains; and the insertion bar defaults to this field. Of course, this prevents you from doing Spotlight searches in any window, but you can still find by content, etc. by selecting these options in the Find utility.

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10.4: Set Command-F to search by 'Name Contains'
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Jan 25, '07 05:26:31PM

Argh. Turns out with further experimentation that this doesn't always restrict the search to Name Contains--it does on my Mac, but on another Mac configured identically as far as I can tell (both using the patch described in this hint, and with the Spotlight search field removed from Find/Finder windows), it still searches by Contents.



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